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Sanjay Srivastava

Sanjay Srivastava studies how personality affects and is affected by the social environment. This includes research on interpersonal perception, emotions, personality dynamics and development, and the psychology of online societies.

Grace Binion

Email: ghicks7 AT uoregon

Grace Binion studies how key affective processes consequential for transdiagnostic risk for psychopathology (e.g. affect recognition, affect perspective taking, emotion regulation) develop in preschool children, as well as how early interpersonal experiences influence this development. Additionally, her research examines the measurement tools and methods employed in these areas (developmental, clinical, and affective science), with particular interest in how they influence replicability and cumulative science.

Cory Costello

Email: ccostell AT uoregon

Cory Costello is interested in personality and reputation: how do people become who they are and how are they seen by others? He has studied personality development across the lifespan, and the accuracy of reputations formed in different contexts (e.g., face-to-face interactions, online, and gossip). He is particularly interested in how reputations are formed, and the consequences they have for the person.

John Flournoy

John Flournoy studies social cognition, its neural underpinnings, and related change dynamics. This work includes the research on the social influences and biological substrates of pro-social and risky decision making during adolescence. A second line of research investigates predictors of change in personality over the lifespan. John is also interested in computationally intensive analytic techniques are instrumental for learning about processes of change from large datasets, including multilevel modeling, structural equation modeling, machine learning, and neuroimaging.

Bradley Hughes

Email: bhughes7 AT uoregon

Bradley Hughes studies interpersonal perception—the impressions and judgments made of others during interactions. Specifically, he is interested in the influence of a person’s personality on others (e.g., elicitation, reciprocity) and how this in turn influences perceptions of and behavior. A second area of interest is the improvement of psychological science. To this end, he is currently examining how people update beliefs based on conflicting scientific evidence.

Nicole Lawless DesJardins

Email: nlawless AT uoregon

Nicole Lawless DesJardins studies what people think about themselves, the impressions they form of others, and how both types of perceptions are shaped by social context. One area of emphasis has been status hierarchies, where she has studied who attains status and how stable status is across situations. She also does research on personality perceptions among social media users.

Rita Ludwig

Email: rludwig AT uoregon

Rita Ludwig is interested in directly applying scientific research to the development of programs that can improve people’s lives. She uses methods such as neuroimaging, psychometrics, and machine learning to study how to transform maladaptive habitual thoughts in behaviors into beneficial ones. Her current line of work focuses on developing evidence-backed interventions to help poor Americans break the cycle of poverty.

Pooya Razavi

Email: pooyar AT uoregon

Pooya Razavi studies the relationship between loneliness and different emotion regulation strategies. He also studies the cross-cultural similarities and differences in experience and expression of emotions.

Chenle Xu

Email: chenlex AT uoregon

Chenle Xu is a senior student at University of Oregon. She is broadly interested in learning about personality, emotion and their cultural aspects. In the lab, she is working on her honor thesis about personality perception by using a self-developed coding system.